갈라디아서 1장 NASB
- 1 Paul an apostle ( not sent from men nor through the agency of man but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead)
- 2 and all the brethren who are with me To the churches of Galatia:
- 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
- 4 who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father
- 5 to whom be the glory forevermore. Amen.
- 6 I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ for a different gospel;
- 7 which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
- 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you he is to be accursed!
- 9 As we have said before so I say again now if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received he is to be accursed!
- 10 For am I now seeking the favor of men or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.
- 11 For I would have you know brethren that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.
- 12 For I neither received it from man nor was I taught it but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
- 13 For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it;
- 14 and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen being more extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions.
- 15 But when God who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through His grace was pleased
- 16 to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood
- 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia and returned once more to Damascus.
- 18 Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days.
- 19 But I did not see any other of the apostles except James the Lord's brother.
- 20 (Now in what I am writing to you I assure you before God that I am not lying.)
- 21 Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
- 22 I was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judea which were in Christ;
- 23 but only they kept hearing "He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he once tried to destroy."
- 24 And they were glorifying God because of me.